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Download full textGinsburg, Lynda; Gal, Iddo – 1995
This study examined adult students' informal knowledge of percent and its relationship to their computational skills. Sixty adults studying in urban and suburban adult education programs were interviewed to ascertain: (1) their ideas of the meanings of benchmark percents, 100%, 50%, and 25%, as they appear in advertising and media contexts; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Structures, Computation
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Direct linkBelzer, Alisa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
This article explores the ways in which prior experiences in formal learning contexts influence adult learners' views of their current context. Using interview data from five women participating in a General Educational Development program, this study suggests that these learners' constructions of previous learning contexts function as "screens"…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Educational Development, Adult Students, Adult Learning
